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Tubac Center for the Arts
The local artists' cooperative organizes individual and group art exhibits, workshops, and other events, and has a gift shop.
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park
Arizona's first state park, opened in 1959, on the site of the Spanish presidio established in 1752. An underground display shows the excavated foundations of the original fort. It recorded 7,256 visits in 2024.
Facts and sources
Place
- Category
- State Historic Park
- Destination
- Tubac
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- State
- Arizona
Visitation
- Annual visits
- 7,256 (2024)
- What is counted
- visits
Ranking
- Overall score
- 19.4 / 100
- Visitation score
- 0.0
- Popularity score
- 5.6
- Significance score
- 60.0
- Confidence
- high
Visiting
- Official website
- azstateparks.com(opens in a new tab)
- Coordinates
- 31.6114, -111.0458
- Last verified
- 2026-08-12
Where it is
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park is a state historic park near Tubac, in Santa Cruz County. It is one of the state historic parks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.
How this ranking was reached
This place scores 19.4 out of 100, at high confidence. The score combines its published visitor count with public interest and tourism significance. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page.
Sources
- Visitation: Arizona Office of Tourism Monthly State Parks Visitation Report (December 2025); source Arizona State Parks, compiled by AHRRC(opens in a new tab)
- Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
- Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
- County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
- Official site: https://www.azstateparks.com/tubac(opens in a new tab)
Record last verified 2026-08-12.
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